Phillie's Trilogy
Recommended by
- Craig Houk:17 Feb. 2024“ Exquisite. With Phillie McDougal, DeVita gifts the audience with one of the most uniquely layered queer & quirky characters ever devised. Unapologetic, defiant, vulnerable, volatile & antagonistic all rolled into one. And in fact, every single character in this play is captivating, the relationships between them genuinely complex and entwined. Phillie’s Trilogy is also cinematic in scope as DeVita nimbly moves backward and forward in time, expertly accentuating various tense moments with flashbacks & voiceovers. There’s plenty to ponder, but at the center of this play is an extraordinary love story between a gay man and his best girlfriend. ”
- Philip Middleton Williams:26 Apr. 2022“ This is not deja-vu; I have recommended this play before in September 2019. But in this finely-tuned revision, Doug DeVita brings the scalpel and sharp focus on the characters to the point that it's a breathtaking trip through the past and present in the lives of these friends and family, lovers and rivals, bringing out the past joys and pain in exquisite and sometimes excruciating detail. The growth of the characters through the years and the regressions to past hurts makes it all the more compelling to watch and hold them to your heart. ”
- Vince Gatton:25 Jan. 2022“ The entire enormous series of Phillie McDougal plays is an equally enormous joy, filled with a sprawling cast of messy, mouthy, finely-delineated and unforgettable characters. This particular time-jumping subset serves especially delicious focus on Phil/Phillie’s complicated relationship to his mother, the balls-out brilliantly…well…self-assured Veronica, and to his trusted bestie Barbie/Barbara. 1970s queer adolescence, grotesque behavior from priests and nuns, and contemporary middle-aged grief and loss come in for the kind of ruthless, funny, and moving examination that only the sharp mind of DeVita can deliver. ”
Development History
- ,Reading,The Great Griffon "Seeking The Queer Voice" Reading Series2017
- ,Reading,The 9th Floor, New York, NY2016
- ,Workshop,Scrap Mettle Arts, New York, NY2016
- ,Reading,The 9th Floor, New York, NY2014
- ,Reading,Arouet, Seattle, Washington2010
Production History
- ,Fringe,Fresh Fruit Festival, New York2017
Awards
Semi-Finalist
Burman New Play Award
Barrington Stage Company
2019
Finalist
The Producer's Perspective PRO Inaugural Reading Series
Ken Davenport / Producer's Perspective PRO
2019
Semi-Finalist
Normal Avenue New American Play Series
Normal Avenue
2019
Winner
Outstanding Production
All Out Arts / The Fresh Fruit Festival
2018
Winner
Scrap Mettle Arts Emerging Playwrights Program
Scrap Mettle Arts
2016